CSO/CISO Perspectives

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Protection

To paraphrase an old saying: “One person’s prevention is another person’s protection.” This may well apply to the wearing of…

5 days ago

The Massive Shift to Cyber Crime

There is a cartoon in The New Yorker of March 30, 2020 showing four mobsters, one with a gun, sitting…

3 months ago

The Demise of the Internal Datacenter and Consequential Risks

Recently, I happened upon a short article about the demise of internal data centers in favor of cloud services. The…

4 months ago

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Metrics and Decision-Making

We have discussed previously, such as in my May 18, 2020 BlogInfoSec column, some of the more challenging characteristics of…

5 months ago

Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Data – Part 2

Having discussed issues relating to the collection and reporting of COVID-19 data in Part 1, we now turn to cyberspace,…

5 months ago

Cybercriminals’ Motivations during Catastrophic Times

Brittany Haynes wrote an article about “How Criminals Are Benefitting From the COVID-19 Crisis” on March 19, 2020, which is…

9 months ago

Cybersecurity Risk Management … Beyond the “Golden Period”

Where do we stand with the management of cybersecurity risk? Answer … Not in a good place. This position was…

9 months ago

Y2K … Two Decades Later

Why didn’t I use the title “Y2K at Twenty” for this column to match “The FS-ISAC at Twenty” that was…

11 months ago

The FS-ISAC at Twenty

The FS-ISAC (Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center) was launched in October 1999 by Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. It…

11 months ago

Another Fifth … Quantum Dawn Cybersecurity Exercise

Another Fifth … Quantum Dawn Cybersecurity Exercise Following my BlogInfoSec column “Taking the Fifth …” posted on October 29, 2019,…

1 year ago